The ongoing trial of Michael Jackson has put me in mind of the murder trial of international celebrity Fatty Arbuckle in 1921 — the sexual details printed in the daily press titillated a moralistic nation and ended in the ruin of one of the most talented comedians of the era.

A little food for thought as we suffer under the onslaught of contemporary sensationalism…

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